Well, we have finally reached New Zealand - the flight from Sydney to Auckland was a relatively short 2 1/2 hours.
On reaching NZ, we were welcomed by the rain (again) and checked into a hotel at the airport for the night as we had arrived early evening and didn't fancy heading straight for the campervan! The main excitement came at about 3.30 when the fire alarm went off (sounding suspiciously a cat being strangled) and lead to us standing around outside for a little while - on the plus side this woke me up just in time for live English...